GeoNames Forum

Hi,

in Adm1ASCII file, half of the US states have a leading "State of .." in their name" (which is not true in the other adm1 file).

For instance, (Adm1ASCII) :
US.CA State of California State of California 5332921

but (adm1)
US.CA California

This is not the case of New Jersey, for instance.

Is there some logic in that ? Do you want me to remove the trailing State of manually of the US states ?

regards,
Sami Dalouche

Sami

You are right this is a bug in the dumper. It did not look at the flag 'isShortName'.
Will be fixed with the next dump

Marc

OK thank you !!!

hi

if it's the short name that is dumped for the Adm1ASCII( it is a good idea) , i think it will make sense to dump the short name for the Country dump too.it it will be consistent that the names match indepandently the file they are dumped. Most of peaople should be interested in the shortname

What do you think ?

Thanks a lot

David

David

The admASCII files are redundant and we only generate them for convenience of our users. If we dump the short name in the main file we would destroy information. I think it is better to dump what we have and if someone wants to have something else then they can generate it from the data.

Marc